Elamur LocationsLębork
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Lębork — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.
Other forms in use:
- Lebork — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- Lauenburg in Pommern — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
- Lauenburg — Short German historical name, ambiguous without the Pomeranian context.
- Lauenburg i. Pom. — Abbreviated historical German locator used in maps and archival records.
French name
Lębork — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Lebork — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- Lauenburg in Pommern — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
- Lauenbourg — French adaptation of the historical German name; the Pomeranian location is needed to distinguish other Lauenburgs.
- Lauenburg — German historical short name retained in French historical references.
About
Lębork is a town on the Łeba in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Its medieval castle and defensive remains reflect its history in the borderlands of Pomerania.
Notes
Not Lauenburg on the Elbe in present-day Germany.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q497148 · JSON
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